Special Guest - Drug dealer

[fluid plank]

The dealer would approach guests and have a chance to make a deal, which would trigger them to both walk to a more remote area of the park to complete the transaction. The guest would appear intoxicated in some other way than the drunks appear, and would then have an elevated risk of drowning, slipping, littering, peeing in pools, injuring themselves by jumping too far off of diving boards, etc. At this point, both the guest and dealer would be nasty guests and give a bonus for catching them. The dealer would be recognizable through approaching guests and eventually walking together with one, and as they emerge after the deal with a visible intoxicated guest.
Catching the dealer could grant some choices:
-Kick them out using tazer, pushing, baseball bat, etc., granting bonus money for catching them
-Allow a drug dealing ring to exist in the park for a cut of the profits. The ring would last for some set number of days, and each day would have a chance to trigger a DEA raid, resulting in forfeiture of profits from the ring plus additional fines. The DEA raid chance would increase based on the number of injured guests or concurrent intoxicated guests, so catching the intoxicated ones is still incentivized.

EDIT: Maintain game maturity level

Maybe it should be more tongue-in-cheek and keep the same mechanics. The shady vendor who sells smuggled snacks, questionable lemonade, mystery gummies, bootleg energy drinks instead of drugs. It could keep all the subtext and stay PG-13.

[frank phoenix]

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[wanton flare]

Pretty good well thought out idea

[swift hinge]

My only concern with this is if it would change the age rating of the game depending on how immersive the drug dealer and what they do is. BUT, I like the idea, very cool

[static ermine]

So you could either kick them or let them deal more if you earn some money?

[fluid plank]

Admittedly I didn't consider the rating implication. Maybe it could be more tongue-in-cheek and keep the same mechanics. The shady vendor who sells smuggled snacks, questionable lemonade, mystery gummies, bootleg energy drinks. It could keep all the subtext and stay PG-13.

[swift hinge]

all good, i still love the concept!

[fluid plank]

Thanks!

[fluid plank]

Exactly. It allows you to either boot the bad guests and go about the day, or create more chaos on a few following days that can lead to a risky way to earn a bit more, while presenting a challenge to keep the cops from busting it. Make it through the few days and the dealer event ends until the next chance encounter with the guest.

[wanton flare]

Could explain that visitors aren't allowed to bring outside snacks and that's why it's bad

[strange carbon]

Caseoh's schedule one inner thoughts may very well come out with this one lol!

[gleaming scarab]

Just my personal view: I don't mind chaos, silly soda drunks, and even the cartoony violence in this game - they're fun. But I think illegal drugs are something else, and that they don't fit in with the rest of the game.
I suppose I wouldn't care if drug dealings are in the game if I could toggle them off so they won't happen in my waterpark.

[swift hinge]

iirc there is "mafia business planned", so I could definitely see this going hand-in-hand with that. We haven't been told exactly what that entails yet as far as I know, I think it'd be very interested to see what it is, and if this could get looped into that in some way

[fluid plank]

I can understand that and how some players would feel this way. I think you raise an important point, so I edited the main idea to add the concept of keeping it PG-13 but maintaining the same mechanics and subtext.

[static ermine]

You never got offered a little willy billy niddly needel inna toilet? Jokes aside, what Zerenity said